drb 2Chronicles:24:17-27
drb@2Chronicles:24:17 @And after the death of Joiada, the princes of Juda went in, and worshipped the king: and he was soothed by their services and hearkened to them.
drb@2Chronicles:24:18 @And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.
drb@2Chronicles:24:19 @And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.
drb@2Chronicles:24:20 @The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?
drb@2Chronicles:24:21 @And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord.
drb@2Chronicles:24:22 @And king Joas did not remember the kindness that Joiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said: The Lord see, and require it.
drb@2Chronicles:24:23 @And when a year was come about, the army of Syria came up against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, end killed all the princes of the people, and they sent all the spoils to the king of Damascus.
drb@2Chronicles:24:24 @And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments.
drb@2Chronicles:24:25 @And departing they left him in diseases: and his servants rose up him, for revenge of the blood of the son of Joiada the priest, and they slew him in his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
drb@2Chronicles:24:26 @Now the men that conspired against him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of Semarith a Moabitess.
drb@2Chronicles:24:27 @And concerning his sons, and the sum of money which was gathered under him, and the repairing the house of God; they are written more diligently in the book of kings: and Amasias his son reigned in his stead.
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